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Care and cultivation second year $100 00 



Care ami cultivation third year 110 00 



Care and cultivation fourth -year 1 25 00 



. Care and cultivation fifth year - 125 «ki 



fare and cultivation sixth year - -- 1 '-'•"> <«i 



Total for six years $1,790 00 



This ten acres will produce: 



The third year, 500 boxes @ $1 60... - -. $«00 00 



The fourth year, 1,500 boxes @ $1 00 2,400 00 



The tilth veil r, 2,000 boxes (ti $1 liO... . - 3,200 00 



The sixth' year, 2,500 boxes @ $1 60 - - 4,000 00 



Total --- $10,400 00 



Deduct for handling and packing, 25 cents per box $1,625 00 



Deduct cost of land and expenses --- 1,790 00 



3,415 00 



Leaving a net profit of $6,985 00 



Thus it will he seen that a man can start on good land, with almost 

 nothing, and at the end of six years have his land paid for, and a net 

 profit of $116 40 per acre per annum. 



As another illustration of what can be accomplished on a small tract of 

 land in California, we will cite a case with figures furnished us by the 

 trustees of an estate held in trust for a period of five years. This was 

 afterwards published in the daily press, but is here given for information 

 of non-residents. 



During this period (five years) there was cultivated about forty acres of 

 land, half in asparagus, and half in Bartlett pears. The total receipts 

 from sales were $56,000. The taxes, labor, farm, and household expenses 

 for the five years amounted to $25,000. Deducting this from the amount 

 of sales, leaves the handsome balance of $31,000, or $155 per acre per 

 annum net profit. 



This tract of land is within the city limits of Sacramento, and the taxes 

 were therefore higher than on outside land; but the value of the land has 

 doubled during this time. The sales of these products were not made at 

 retail, but to wholesale dealers, who shipped to San Francisco and eastern 

 points. 



SUGAR BEETS. 



The subject of sugar-beet culture in this State has long been a matter 

 of consideration, and encouragement, by this Board. 



In 1884 we extended an invitation to Professor H. W. Wiley, chemist of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, to favor this coast with an 

 official visit, and talk to our people of sorghum and sugar-beet culture. 



In December of that year Professor Wiley paid this State a visit, and 

 delivered an address before the State Board of Agriculture, on " Northern 

 Sugar Industry," wherein he stated that his visit to the coast was chiefly 

 to investigate the question above referred to. 



He encouraged the further development of our natural resources for the 

 production of the sugar beet, claiming that a large portion of the Sacra- 

 mento and San Joaquin Valleys came within the isothermal lines, show- 

 ing the temperature to be so nearly equal as to be peculiarly beneficial to 

 the growth of beets. 



The entire production of beet sugar in 1883-4 was manufactured at 

 Alvarado, Alameda County, California. In 1883 one million two hundred 

 and fifty thousand pounds was here made, and the cultivation of beets in 



